Since those Islamic terrorists crashed browsers into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, and they sent envelopes full of computer viruses to the Senate and the American Media building in Florida. Oh, wait...
It's because those Islamic Terrorists learned how to fly jet airliners on-line! Yeah! Oh... Um...
Because the idea is easily enforceable and people outside the United States will have no choice but comply! No? Crap...
for basement mad scientists is that the attachment to the doc finally has a clear diagram for building a cold fusion cell. I know that when this all splashed fifteen years ago, the biggest gripe other scientists had was the lack of a clear experiment plan to replicate. Well, now we've got the diagrams and the electrolysis Palladium loading protocol. So if you really wanna find out for yourself, you can.
But is this an ex post facto law? They are neither forbidding nor taxing something after the fact, their rationale is "The idea, proposed by a research wing of the Department of Education, is designed to improve federal oversight of students' enrollment rates, graduation rates, and tuition."
So, we're back to my original point: If you take the Man's money, the Man will get his money's worth out of you." Officially they're performing what they see to be their fiducuary responsibility towards the money they confiscate from me to pay for some snot-nosed brat's "Introduction to Micronesian Matriarchal Mating Rituals."
My argument isn't that the snot-nosed brat should be happy to have a microscope jammed up his behind, my argument is that he shouldn't take my money. But, if he's going to, then I hope the microscope is very wide, very cold, and very heavy.
You're right. We do need to stop small abuses when we can, just as we should stop large ones when we can. My argument is that the only way to stop these abuses is to stop taking money from you and me to pay for classes that are either of no value, or are of such a value that private scholarships or apprenticeships would be much better at subsidizing them.
1) You know there's not a parallel between keeping a file of vital statistics on someone and revoking the right of protection against unlawful search and seizure. The police can pull up any of my vital information (including my fingerprint, here in Georgia) any time they want because I agreed to sign up for a driver's license. They can't revoke my rights of protection against unlawful search and seizure.
2) If you take the Man's money, the Man's gonna get his money's worth. Sure, you'd be pissed if a government agency changed the rules on you after you accepted cash from them. Guess what? That happens all the time. And why shouldn't it? The rules get changed on people NOT accepting public money on a daily basis. You move more than $2000 (the amount may be less now) into or out of your bank account, then the bank 1) HAS to report the activity to the feds and 2) CAN'T tell you they did it. So let's not get our bloomers in a bunch over data requirements. Your SSN wasn't supposed to EVER be used as an identifying mark, and now it's you PRIMARY one. Sucks, don't it? You're right, such strings ought to be stated up front. The problem is, the bastards who propose the changes are usually not the same bastards who offered the public trough to the pigs in the first place. So every bastard's butt is covered.
3) What I posted wasn't a troll. The AC replier didn't present an argument, she presented something that takes a bit of vocal range to pull off: whiny sarcasm. And she said that my arguing that I shouldn't subsidize other's college courses meant that I'm against feeding the hungry and clothing the naked. Which I'm not against. Which means SHE'S the troll. Though, if homecoming queen, probably a fairly fetching one.
but it bears repeating here. The entertainment industry treats it customers like criminals, and then they wonder why they are resented. I do not pirate multimedia files. I buy what I watch, listen to, and play. While I certainly don't agree with someone saying, "Well, they treat me like a criminal, so screw em, I'm stealing it" I can understand it.
Piracy sucks. People who copy files and use them forever under the guise of "deciding if I want to buy it" are wrong. But the people who make file sharing and file copying software aren't wrong and need to be left alone.
Golly, it's uncanny the way "Anonymous Coward" is synonymous with "hysterical little homecoming queen wanna-be." I mean, if you're too ashamed of your point of view to sign your name to it, maybe, um, you need to change your point of view? I can just hear this little precious princess' university application: "Gosh darn it, I believe that children are the future, and I don't care who knows it!" Ooh, the courage.
because all the impacts they should measure are physiological. They ought to measure the relative frequency that the fight or flight response gets triggered without a satisfactory response (the body can neither fight nor flee,) the average amount of sleep, the average amount of aerobic exercise, the relative frequency of overeating and drinking to self-medicate a negative emotional state, and other things we can quantify. "Sick kids worry parents to death" is not a scientific premise or conclusion. And I speak as a parent who would worry himself to death if his daughter had a serious illness.
And the FIRST thing to do about it is to stop taking money from the government (that means your fellow taxpayers) for things that shouldn't be the government's (that means your fellow taxpayers) job. YES, that means education. Your course in Lesbian Basket Weaving should NOT be subsidized by me. And neither should your course in Operating System design.
of spending tax dollars on something. You stick your mouth in the government trough, and the government sticks its microscope up your ass. And enough with the "private" colleges. They get much (and in a lot of cases, most) of their money from various government handouts, whether it's research funding, tax breaks on land and buildings, government-subsidized or -guaranteed student grants and loans, or a ton of other sources. You take the Man's money, the Man is gonna get his money's worth out of you.
I concur. If the players are too far apart to hit each other with empty beer cans, it's no longer a LAN Party. Maybe we've reached the point where old farts like me can talk about Old School LAN Party Creds.
At least to someone like me. Louis Pasteur created it first by removing the spinal cords of rabbits who had died of the disease and drying them for various lengths of time. Then he'd grind them up and innoculate the victims in stages: first innoculation, from spinal cord dried for 14 days. Next one, 13 days. The victim got fresher and fresher cord powder to trigger an immune response.
I remember reading about that in the kid-version of his biography when I was 9 years old and thinking, "Golly, he was smart."
I'd rather have my urban planners trying to simulate real-world consequences of their actions instead of pulling a Soviet-style "The people need to woek harder to meet our expectations" kind of approach urban planners tend to prefer.
Maybe if we hadn't pirated so many copies of Ultima with Ye Olde Commodore 64 and Hole Punch (to double our disk capacity) He'd have TWO awesome castles to gloat about!:) Of course, it's the mark of a TRUE Ubergeek that he built a bimbo-free version of the Playboy Mansion.
They prepare lists of animals that are in danger of extinction, and they report that "Today, more species than ever are in danger of extinction" but they aren't able to effectively conclude if this is due to accelerating environmental factors or because we discover species at a record pace and of course not all of them will be in a healthy state. And they further don't say if the accelerating environmental factors are within our control or not.
Thanks to Star Trek, every geek and his sidekick thinks that humans are 1) responsible and 2) have the fix within our power. Which means usually we geeks are 0 for 2 in our assessment.
Not to mention that biodiversity is not an intrinsic good. Should the candiru be protected? Malaria-bearing mosquitos? Of course not.
Of course, all this NASA sharing would be worth it if we could use it to get a credit against our dues with those interesting folks at the United Nations, but somehow I don't think they'd go for it. They'd rather have cash since it spends better Riveria villas than scientific data does.
Actually, there might have been a humanzee in the past. You can read about it (and some of the ethical implications) here. And before anyone asks, actually, I DO trust The Rotten Library more than Wikipedia.
You can make a wheel out of coat hangers, and make the spokes out of rubber bands stretched between the rim and the hub Then you support the wheel on a horizontal axle so it looks like a ferris wheel and shine an incandescent lamp on one side so that it gets hotter than the other side. The rubber bands contract as they heat and expand as they cool and the wheel turns. It's cool.
Wouldn't you know it, there's a Dummies book for it. The steps are to 1) write a business plan that clearly explains what you need to become a money-making venture and what kind of money you expect to make. These expectations have to be documented, preferably by using real-life independent MMORPG projects (Non Sony, Non EA, Non BLizzard... You know, niche MMORPG creators that people like Penny Arcade talk about) that have made it to profitability/viability. You also need to explain why your venture will be superior to the existing ones so you can have a chance to poach from other MMORPGs and draw new people to MMORPGs. 2) You need to locate angel investors and Venture capitalists. Believe it or not, they list themselves in the yellow pages. Find them there and then go to their websites. Their sites should tell you what kinds of things they invest in and what format they like. If it doesn't, please call them. They're there to answer your questions. 3) Get your presentation together. Oddly enough, this is like looking for a job in that you're providing a resume, work samples, and are interviewed to determine if the product and team you've got has what it takes to get money out of the investors. 4)Remember that "Venture Capitalist" is not a monolithic structure. Some are professional investors. Some are tech people who made a pile and want to make another pile backing a winner instead of going through the pains of product development themselves. Some are doctors and dentists who have realized they hate doctoring and dentisting and want to find a good investment so they can change careers.
The book I linked to above is a good place to start. It's best if you can convince a successful marketing professional that your idea is good enough to go get venture money in exchange for a piece of the action. But, if you can't or don't want to do that, you can do it yourself.
And don't narrow your search too much. Our primary investor turned out to be a Malaysian real estate tychoon.
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Gabriella asked a manager why there was no Al Fresco sausage available.
I got your Al Fresco sausage right here, Gabriella Bay-bee!
Since those Islamic terrorists crashed browsers into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, and they sent envelopes full of computer viruses to the Senate and the American Media building in Florida. Oh, wait...
It's because those Islamic Terrorists learned how to fly jet airliners on-line! Yeah! Oh... Um...
Because the idea is easily enforceable and people outside the United States will have no choice but comply! No? Crap...
Wait... Wait... Shit! Forgot to carry the two!
Everyone who's read Genesis and done the math knows that galaxy is only 4400 years old!
for basement mad scientists is that the attachment to the doc finally has a clear diagram for building a cold fusion cell. I know that when this all splashed fifteen years ago, the biggest gripe other scientists had was the lack of a clear experiment plan to replicate. Well, now we've got the diagrams and the electrolysis Palladium loading protocol. So if you really wanna find out for yourself, you can.
But is this an ex post facto law? They are neither forbidding nor taxing something after the fact, their rationale is "The idea, proposed by a research wing of the Department of Education, is designed to improve federal oversight of students' enrollment rates, graduation rates, and tuition."
So, we're back to my original point: If you take the Man's money, the Man will get his money's worth out of you." Officially they're performing what they see to be their fiducuary responsibility towards the money they confiscate from me to pay for some snot-nosed brat's "Introduction to Micronesian Matriarchal Mating Rituals."
My argument isn't that the snot-nosed brat should be happy to have a microscope jammed up his behind, my argument is that he shouldn't take my money. But, if he's going to, then I hope the microscope is very wide, very cold, and very heavy.
You're right. We do need to stop small abuses when we can, just as we should stop large ones when we can. My argument is that the only way to stop these abuses is to stop taking money from you and me to pay for classes that are either of no value, or are of such a value that private scholarships or apprenticeships would be much better at subsidizing them.
1) You know there's not a parallel between keeping a file of vital statistics on someone and revoking the right of protection against unlawful search and seizure. The police can pull up any of my vital information (including my fingerprint, here in Georgia) any time they want because I agreed to sign up for a driver's license. They can't revoke my rights of protection against unlawful search and seizure.
2) If you take the Man's money, the Man's gonna get his money's worth. Sure, you'd be pissed if a government agency changed the rules on you after you accepted cash from them. Guess what? That happens all the time. And why shouldn't it? The rules get changed on people NOT accepting public money on a daily basis. You move more than $2000 (the amount may be less now) into or out of your bank account, then the bank 1) HAS to report the activity to the feds and 2) CAN'T tell you they did it. So let's not get our bloomers in a bunch over data requirements. Your SSN wasn't supposed to EVER be used as an identifying mark, and now it's you PRIMARY one. Sucks, don't it? You're right, such strings ought to be stated up front. The problem is, the bastards who propose the changes are usually not the same bastards who offered the public trough to the pigs in the first place. So every bastard's butt is covered.
3) What I posted wasn't a troll. The AC replier didn't present an argument, she presented something that takes a bit of vocal range to pull off: whiny sarcasm. And she said that my arguing that I shouldn't subsidize other's college courses meant that I'm against feeding the hungry and clothing the naked. Which I'm not against. Which means SHE'S the troll. Though, if homecoming queen, probably a fairly fetching one.
but it bears repeating here. The entertainment industry treats it customers like criminals, and then they wonder why they are resented. I do not pirate multimedia files. I buy what I watch, listen to, and play. While I certainly don't agree with someone saying, "Well, they treat me like a criminal, so screw em, I'm stealing it" I can understand it.
Piracy sucks. People who copy files and use them forever under the guise of "deciding if I want to buy it" are wrong. But the people who make file sharing and file copying software aren't wrong and need to be left alone.
Golly, it's uncanny the way "Anonymous Coward" is synonymous with "hysterical little homecoming queen wanna-be." I mean, if you're too ashamed of your point of view to sign your name to it, maybe, um, you need to change your point of view? I can just hear this little precious princess' university application: "Gosh darn it, I believe that children are the future, and I don't care who knows it!" Ooh, the courage.
because all the impacts they should measure are physiological. They ought to measure the relative frequency that the fight or flight response gets triggered without a satisfactory response (the body can neither fight nor flee,) the average amount of sleep, the average amount of aerobic exercise, the relative frequency of overeating and drinking to self-medicate a negative emotional state, and other things we can quantify. "Sick kids worry parents to death" is not a scientific premise or conclusion. And I speak as a parent who would worry himself to death if his daughter had a serious illness.
And the FIRST thing to do about it is to stop taking money from the government (that means your fellow taxpayers) for things that shouldn't be the government's (that means your fellow taxpayers) job. YES, that means education. Your course in Lesbian Basket Weaving should NOT be subsidized by me. And neither should your course in Operating System design.
of spending tax dollars on something. You stick your mouth in the government trough, and the government sticks its microscope up your ass. And enough with the "private" colleges. They get much (and in a lot of cases, most) of their money from various government handouts, whether it's research funding, tax breaks on land and buildings, government-subsidized or -guaranteed student grants and loans, or a ton of other sources. You take the Man's money, the Man is gonna get his money's worth out of you.
So many cell phone users have their heads up their butts that we'll have a nation of walking gardens.
Goatse! Goatse! Goatse!
I concur. If the players are too far apart to hit each other with empty beer cans, it's no longer a LAN Party. Maybe we've reached the point where old farts like me can talk about Old School LAN Party Creds.
At least to someone like me. Louis Pasteur created it first by removing the spinal cords of rabbits who had died of the disease and drying them for various lengths of time. Then he'd grind them up and innoculate the victims in stages: first innoculation, from spinal cord dried for 14 days. Next one, 13 days. The victim got fresher and fresher cord powder to trigger an immune response.
I remember reading about that in the kid-version of his biography when I was 9 years old and thinking, "Golly, he was smart."
I'd rather have my urban planners trying to simulate real-world consequences of their actions instead of pulling a Soviet-style "The people need to woek harder to meet our expectations" kind of approach urban planners tend to prefer.
Maybe if we hadn't pirated so many copies of Ultima with Ye Olde Commodore 64 and Hole Punch (to double our disk capacity) He'd have TWO awesome castles to gloat about! :) Of course, it's the mark of a TRUE Ubergeek that he built a bimbo-free version of the Playboy Mansion.
I'm holding out for "Burger Time: Final Blood Reckoning."
They prepare lists of animals that are in danger of extinction, and they report that "Today, more species than ever are in danger of extinction" but they aren't able to effectively conclude if this is due to accelerating environmental factors or because we discover species at a record pace and of course not all of them will be in a healthy state. And they further don't say if the accelerating environmental factors are within our control or not.
Thanks to Star Trek, every geek and his sidekick thinks that humans are 1) responsible and 2) have the fix within our power. Which means usually we geeks are 0 for 2 in our assessment.
Not to mention that biodiversity is not an intrinsic good. Should the candiru be protected? Malaria-bearing mosquitos? Of course not.
Of course, all this NASA sharing would be worth it if we could use it to get a credit against our dues with those interesting folks at the United Nations, but somehow I don't think they'd go for it. They'd rather have cash since it spends better Riveria villas than scientific data does.
Actually, there might have been a humanzee in the past. You can read about it (and some of the ethical implications) here. And before anyone asks, actually, I DO trust The Rotten Library more than Wikipedia.
Use? USE?!? Use is "engineering." This is a "Science" topic. :)
You can make a wheel out of coat hangers, and make the spokes out of rubber bands stretched between the rim and the hub Then you support the wheel on a horizontal axle so it looks like a ferris wheel and shine an incandescent lamp on one side so that it gets hotter than the other side. The rubber bands contract as they heat and expand as they cool and the wheel turns. It's cool.
Wouldn't you know it, there's a Dummies book for it. The steps are to
1) write a business plan that clearly explains what you need to become a money-making venture and what kind of money you expect to make. These expectations have to be documented, preferably by using real-life independent MMORPG projects (Non Sony, Non EA, Non BLizzard... You know, niche MMORPG creators that people like Penny Arcade talk about) that have made it to profitability/viability. You also need to explain why your venture will be superior to the existing ones so you can have a chance to poach from other MMORPGs and draw new people to MMORPGs.
2) You need to locate angel investors and Venture capitalists. Believe it or not, they list themselves in the yellow pages. Find them there and then go to their websites. Their sites should tell you what kinds of things they invest in and what format they like. If it doesn't, please call them. They're there to answer your questions.
3) Get your presentation together. Oddly enough, this is like looking for a job in that you're providing a resume, work samples, and are interviewed to determine if the product and team you've got has what it takes to get money out of the investors.
4)Remember that "Venture Capitalist" is not a monolithic structure. Some are professional investors. Some are tech people who made a pile and want to make another pile backing a winner instead of going through the pains of product development themselves. Some are doctors and dentists who have realized they hate doctoring and dentisting and want to find a good investment so they can change careers.
The book I linked to above is a good place to start. It's best if you can convince a successful marketing professional that your idea is good enough to go get venture money in exchange for a piece of the action. But, if you can't or don't want to do that, you can do it yourself.
And don't narrow your search too much. Our primary investor turned out to be a Malaysian real estate tychoon.
Good luck!
As long as your reasoning on the morality of abortion does not involve any supernatural consequences, yes.